Example sentences of "[vb infin] [subord] [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.

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1 The latter part of this subclause is inserted to try to avoid the difficulty that could arise where a landlord declines to accept rent in order not to waive a breach of covenant by the tenant , which it has been suggested could have a similar effect of releasing the guarantor , but this is not certain .
2 Here , a charge under Schedule E can arise where a manager has acquired shares in respect of which a " chargeable event " occurs while he is the beneficial owner of them and the manager is a director or employee of Newco or Target or an associated company of either of them at some time during the period of seven years ending with the date on which the chargeable event occurs .
3 A situation may arise where a family is involved and the father is unable to return to the U.K. If he requires someone to remain with him it would be unfair to say the children would have to go home alone .
4 It would arise where a defendant could not prove , on the balance of probabilities , that his story was correct , that someone else was responsible for causing personal injury or damage to the vehicle taken or to other vehicles and articles , and that he was not a party to the offence .
5 Circumstances may arise where a card is retained by an Abbeylink machine .
6 As the course lengthens the bed of the distributary will be built up and the situation may arise where a levee is breached and a new shorter course to the sea made available .
7 The situation may arise where the taxpayer is on the face of it chargeable to tax under Case V of Schedule D and also caught by Part XV of the Taxes Act 1988 .
8 Problems may also arise where the headtenant provides services to his subtenants , particularly where the subtenant 's service charge is reserved as rent .
9 Thus situations may arise where the acquisition of companies with relatively small turnover may nevertheless have a Community dimension .
10 The problem does not arise where the review takes place on the assumption of a hypothetical letting for the residue of the actual term .
11 Problems may arise where the foreman is bribed or negligent and excessive hours are claimed by the sub-contractor .
12 Either side , or the jury , could ask for the tape itself to be played during the trial and the judge would almost always accede ; difficulties might arise where the tape contained objectionable or inadmissible evidence , for example , references to previous convictions , but these could usually be overcome .
13 It is suggested that as a result of CA 1985 , s35 the main difficulties will only arise where the purchaser knows or should have known that the directors of the vendor were abusing their powers , for example , by committing a fraud on the vendor 's creditors .
14 Excess salary costs will arise where the supply head is employed on a salary higher than the group size of the receiving school .
15 If consent does not exist where a woman lacks understanding of the nature of the act and if the defendant knows of her lack of understanding , then he must have the requisite mens rea for the offence .
16 No , I do n't know about a spray , I do n't know although the fountain the fountain idea , does n't it .
17 Taking steps to ensure that Queen Victoria was informed of Leopold 's candidature while ignoring Napoleon III was in itself an insult , for France was certainly more directly concerned in the matter than England and the Emperor had better need than the Queen to be told directly .
18 As the troubadour Pous de Capdeuil put it , " What more can kings desire than the right to save themselves from hell-fire by mighty deeds of arms ? "
19 SIR Richard Attenborough , the chairman of Channel 4 , yesterday warned he would resign if the Government insisted on a right to veto appointments to the new body which will run the channel .
20 Havel urged that a referendum should be held by December 1991 , implying that he would resign if the issue remained unsolved .
21 The 230-207 vote in the Sejm ( lower house ) ended a week of uncertainty in which the prime minister , Hanna Suchocka , had threatened that her government would resign if the budget failed .
22 None of this affects the tenure of office of Ministers of the Crown ; they remain ‘ the government ’ although they will , of course , resign if the country rejects them .
23 And de Gaulle had , on each occasion , made strong personal appeals for a large " yes " vote , implicitly and sometimes explicitly indicating that he would resign if the vote went against him .
24 Health Minister Camilo González Pozo , a member of AD/M-19 , said that he would resign if the arrest warrants were enforced .
25 The Sixth Annual General Meeting of the National Amalgamated Sailors ' and Firemen 's Union was held , as would normally have been expected , at the end of October 1894 in a mood of retrenchment and with threats from Wilson , now designated general president , and Robert McBride , recently created general secretary , that they would no longer tolerate " the underhand and carping pettiness of branch officials " and their " present lax and disorderly method of conducting the business of the union " and would resign if the situation did not improve .
26 Er , let me apologize if the motion appears a little vague .
27 So I would like to see the old law brought back , which says that all the players in front of the kicker must retreat until the kicker or anyone behind him has passed them .
28 Do you know the heart , do yo do you know if a heart
29 ‘ Do you know if a date is set for Harriet 's funeral ?
30 It had given him the chance to go on talking to and getting to know children and he was sure he would know if a boy was telling him the truth .
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